Since...
I didn’t know people still created such horrid table-in-table-in-table relics.
Well, originally I went in there to fix up the download link – by setting the a tag’s style to display:block, you can make the clickable area be an entire rectangle instead of just the link text (except in IE6 anyway). That is always a nice touch for button-like elements.
But then I stumbled into a horrible table mess… it’s amazing how awful the markup for a simple page like this can be made. (And to be clear, your submission was not nearly the worst I’ve seen.)
Anyway, I cleaned it up. I also applied my “large clickable area tweak.” And made a minor typographical improvement along the way. The result renders precisely the same in Firefox 2 and only has a few minor differences in the placement of things in Opera 9. I can’t test IE, I’m afraid.
Here you go:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>Strawberry Perl</title>
<style type="text/css">
body {
background-color: #fff;
color: #111;
font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
}
a {
color: #000;
text-decoration: none;
}
h1 {
font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 38px;
margin: 1em 0;
}
p {
font-size: 23px;
}
ul {
margin: 4.45em 0 0 100px;
padding: 0;
}
li {
list-style-type: none;
font-size: 18px;
margin: 1em 0;
padding: 0;
}
#wrapper {
width: 508px;
height: 600px;
position: absolute;
top: 73px;
left: 50%;
margin-left: -490px;
padding-left: 472px;
background-image: url(128291_6321.jpg);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
}
#download {
display: block;
margin-top: 3.6em;
float: right;
border: 2px solid #900;
background-color: #fcc;
padding: 5px;
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}
#download b {
color: #900;
text-decoration: underline;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="wrapper">
<h1>Complete Platform Equality</h1>
<p>Strawberry Perl 5.10.0. Arriving November 2007.</p>
<ul>
<li>No more binary packages.</li>
<li>No other installation required.</li>
<li>Just a complete 100% CPAN capable Perl for<br>
your Windows® computer that’s exactly the<br>
same as Perl everywhere else.</li>
</ul>
<div>
<a href="http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/A/AD/ADAMK/strawberry-perl-5.8.8-al pha-2.exe" id="download">
<b>Download Strawberry Perl 5.8.8 Alpha 2</b><br>
(Win2k/XP/Vista, English, 24MB)
</a>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
If you copy-paste, beware: Slashcode has inserted a blank in the download URL to make it wrappable.
Re:Goodness gracious
Alias on 2007-10-24T15:30:39
Well, I was kind of in a hurry, so in such situations I tend to fall back on tried and true methods that work more or less everywhere.:)
Also, I try not to think of as "table", more like just a mistyping of "GTK Packing Box":)
If you like, I can give you commit to the repository and you can improve the pages directly?Re:Goodness gracious
Alias on 2007-10-24T15:55:06
In fact, since it's by far the easiest way, I've added you to the repository.
An email with your account should have arrived.
Check out http://svn.ali.as/cpan/websites/strawberryperl.com/ and go nuts.
I'll update the public site from svn tomorrow.Re:Goodness gracious
Aristotle on 2007-10-24T16:47:53
Committed.
Re:Goodness gracious
sigzero on 2007-10-24T18:26:03
Now it is broken...no big strawberry picture.Re:Goodness gracious
sigzero on 2007-10-24T18:26:32
Ah, I refreshed and there it is. : )Re:Goodness gracious
Aristotle on 2007-10-25T02:08:40
Well, it’s not my HTML/CSS there yet anyway, it’s still Adam’s.
Re:Goodness gracious
Alias on 2007-10-25T02:34:30
I'll hook up a website auto-updated when I get home tonight.
Re:November 2007 - 5.10 release date
Alias on 2007-10-25T11:07:33
We just hit code freeze, there should be about a month from that to a real release.
It's just nobody other than me wants to outright name a date:)
(And even I'm not willing to name a day)Re:November 2007 - 5.10 release date
sigzero on 2007-10-25T11:41:17
Sometime in November is good enough for me. : )
